Hi and thanks for compiling such a fab new version of MX! I love it but after installation, I have about 279 updates. These updates then make my icons and sound disappear. This is an IBM Thinkpad x31 with a 120GB Samsung SSD and 2GB RAM. It ran on MX-14 beautifully until I decided to install MX-15. I can reinstall, but what I do about the updates? I'd love to ignore them, but there's too many and I probably need some of them. But obviously, some of them will mess up my nice new install...

Thanks in advance.
Leslie

After the update run

apt-get install -f

To complete the upgrade. For some reason your upgrade is only partially completeling.

If you update using Synaptic, it ends with an error message. Close the message, then click Apply again, and it will complete properly.

Chris

Thanks so much for the quick responses @chrispop99 and @dolphin_oracle. I will definitely try this out when I get home and reinstall (for the 3rd time!).

My installation becomes so corrupted by the upgrades that I can't even apt-get or sudo on a terminal. Instead, I get this dreaded error message:

E: Could not open lock file /var/lib/dpkg/lock - open (13: Permission denied)
E: Unable to lock the administration directory (/var/lib/dpkg/), are you root?

A sure-fire sign I need to reinstall...

Or have I downloaded a bad ISO?

Cheers

Or have I downloaded a bad ISO?

You should certainly check the MD5 sum of the download if you haven't already done so.

Chris

If you're able to, you might consider downloading the last (June) MX-15 snapshot here:

32bit:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://mxrepo.com/snapshots/MX-15_June_386.iso"
linktext was:"http://mxrepo.com/snapshots/MX-15_June_386.iso"
====================================

• • or

64bit:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://mxrepo.com/snapshots/MX-15_June_x64.iso"
linktext was:"http://mxrepo.com/snapshots/MX-15_June_x64.iso"
====================================


(other snapshots available here:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://mxrepo.com/snapshots/"
linktext was:"http://mxrepo.com/snapshots/"
====================================
)

and use it instead of the original MX-15 release iso which was released in Dec. 2015.

The snapshot will have a good portion of those 279 updates already installed, including the package updates that cause the partial upgrade when upgrading the original release.

There will still be maybe 20 to 30 updates to bring it fully up to date, but not the 279 updates you need with the original release.

Thanks all for your very helpful responses. I've reinstalled MX-14 for the time being, until I can get a rock-solid download of 15.

@KMathern, I did download the most recent snapshot - dated June 16 or something like that.

I think there's a very good chance I have a loopy copy because 279 updates is just too much!

Bests,
Leslie

lesliealee wrote:...@KMathern, I did download the most recent snapshot - dated June 16 or something like that.

I think there's a very good chance I have a loopy copy because 279 updates is just too much! ...

I would do a doublecheck on the iso file you downloaded.

I checked the June snapshot (MX-15_June_x64.iso) in a LiveUSB session about 30 minutes ago, with the default repos it was showing that it needed 42 upgrades.

42 upgrades is a little higher than what I thought it would be, but it's way less than 279.

Last week when I checked the original release it needed 264 upgrades, it may well be up to 279 upgrades by now, it might even be 280 something (I just had another 8 updates this morning on my MX-15 install).



Also, since I posted yesterday a July snapshot has been uploaded

32bit:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://mxrepo.com/snapshots/MX-15_July_386.iso"
linktext was:"http://mxrepo.com/snapshots/MX-15_July_386.iso"
====================================

64bit:
========= SCRAPER REMOVED AN EMBEDDED LINK HERE ===========
url was:"http://mxrepo.com/snapshots/MX-15_July_x64.iso"
linktext was:"http://mxrepo.com/snapshots/MX-15_July_x64.iso"
====================================

In a Live session of the July snaphot, with the default repos it's showing that it only needs 3 upgrades.